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Started 3 years ago by allmyownstunts
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Zadok the second

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'Reduce it down'. Ditto.

Posted 3 years ago #
allmyownstunts

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pre-book ditto.

And 'available' on signs, eg 'B&B available' 'Bar lunches available'

Posted 3 years ago #
wallster

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Bear with me.

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The All New Jeni B

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"What can I do you for?"

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Scroat

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This used to be a Police joke - my father was a policeman. Didn't know it had spread into general use.

Posted 3 years ago #
Scroat

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ANYTHING DAVID CAMERON SAYS...

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rikkor

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"No, it's not our little secret. I'm telling my parents."

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Stan Laurel

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"Do the math"
"Nucular"

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The All New Jeni B

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"Chassis" with a hard CH.

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shitsu_tonka

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"Whatevah"

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The All New Jeni B

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"Aks" instead of ask.

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The All New Jeni B

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And "Free Range Sausages". Is there a field somewhere with lots of little sausages gambolling merrily? Are the poor little things rounded up one day to be packed off to the supermarket?

Bloody stupid phrase, like occasional table.

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fernandomando

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'Open letter to...'

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malgor

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I was going to add that thing where you put an @ sign in front of people's names in messages, but actually I think that's quite a cool thing to do. In fact, I'm going to use it now, first ever time I've done this, so it's a bit of an historic moment:

@simonjmr - E Izzard had a line about that use of 'awesome' you mentioned back there. He made the comparison between the awesome view an astronaut has of earth from space and an awesome US half-pound burger with yellow AND red sauces on it.

The one I would like to add is 'pre-heat oven to gas mark 6'. How do you 'pre-heat' an oven? Do you give it a good blast first with a blow-torch?

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Scroat

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No. Preheat is fine. You turn it on before you use it.

Just like....

Posted 3 years ago #
malgor

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..Just like 'Heat oven to gas mark 6'.

Then there's 'remove sleeve' and 'stand for one minute'. The shirts I've ruined and the hours I must've wasted...

Posted 3 years ago #
cazzbar

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I always delete my text messages

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edward hack

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SERVE CHILLED - I'm never sure if I should go and stand ouside in the cold for 10 minutes or simply snort a line of coke.

you're call is very imp......(oh he's hung up)
this call may be used for train.....(hello, hello)

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theumpire

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This all sounds like that Gilbert and Sullivan character in The Mikado (was it the Lord High Executioner?) who "had a little list - and they'd none of 'em be missed!".

My list would include all of the above - and those infuriating people who know the phonetic alphabet - Alpha, Bravo, Charlie . . . .

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virtuallywill

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Roger that Umpire.

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The All New Jeni B

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I like to confuse people in call centre by creating my own phonetics.
(I used to work in a call centre, so it's allowed.)

Call centre worker - "Is the F for Freddy or S for Sugar?"
Me - "No, that's S for Shreddy"

Puerile nonsense, but it relieves the boredom after pressing 30 different numbers on the automated menu and then being on hold for 2 weeks.

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theumpire

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Did you know that there are 13 different official spelling alphabets? They are -
NATO & Aviation, British Forces 1952, RAF 1942–43, Police,French, German (DIN 5009), Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish/Norwegian, Finnish, and Turkish.

Not looking forward to being rogered, Will, even by you! (Should that have a "D for Dog" in it, or would that be something else?)

Posted 3 years ago #
StoopyDeGunt

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"Oh yeah? Think you're hard do you?"

That's one phrase I'm never ever going to use again.

Posted 3 years ago #
virtuallywill

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Roger the Umpire does sound like a cricket club initiation ceremony.

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StoopyDeGunt

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What about when people say

Reee-Search instead of research

Sidewalk instead of pavement

Real Estate instead of Athletico Estate

Posted 3 years ago #
Scroat

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'Let's unpack that..."

WTF!!!

Posted 3 years ago #
Mr Glover Lover

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Where I work, if the management want to broach a subject during a meeting they refer to it as 'calling it out'.

It's very annoying.

Posted 3 years ago #
theumpire

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This thread is beginning to look like a bingo caller’s crib sheet for “Bullshit bingo”, a game we used to play to while away the dreary hours of all-day conferences in the computer industry during the eighties. I haven’t yet seen any mention of the bottom line, blue sky thinking, out of the box, at the end of the day, etc., etc., etc....

Posted 3 years ago #
StoopyDeGunt

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What about "Step AWAY from the ...."

It's now twenty years since this phrase was coined on Roseanne, and yet people still use it as if they've just made it up.

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MightyBlair

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When people say 'Literally' as if to clarify that you shouldn't be looking for any deeper meaning within phrases such as 'I literally hate him'. Or even worse, 'I have literally no idea', used to set the speaker aside from those who say they haven't any clue but are in fact just being coy. Knobs.

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